Thirty-nine new Covid-19 cases in M’sia, total at 8,943 — Health DG

KUCHING: Malaysia recorded 39 new positive Covid-19 cases as at noon yesterday, bringing the nation’s cumulative number of cases to 8,943.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 11 of the new cases were imported while the remaining 28 were local transmissions.

On the imported cases, he said it involved four Malaysians and seven foreigners.

“The 11 cases were from Saudi Arabia ( one case detected in Sabah), Ireland (one case in Kuala Lumpur), South Korea (one in Sarawak, one in Kuala Lumpur), India (one in Kedah), Russia (one in Kuala Lumpur), United States (one in Kuala Lumpur), South America (one in Sarawak), United Kingdom (two in Sarawak) and the Philippines ( one in Kuala Lumpur),” he said in a statement yesterday.

For the local transmission cases, Dr Noor Hisham said 22 of them involved Malaysians and the remaining six were foreigners.

He added that out of the 22 local transmissions involving Malaysians, 19 of them were detected in Sarawak.

“Seven cases are from the Sentosa Cluster; four from the Kuching Engineering Cluster; four from Satok Market Cluster; one from Mambong Cluster; one from the Melbourne Person Under Investigation (PUI) Cluster; one from surveillance screening at airport entry point; and one self-screening case,” he said, adding that the latter two cases showed no symptoms and have been admitted to Sarawak General Hospital.

On the six local transmission cases involving foreigners, he said two were detected from the Sentosa Cluster in Sarawak and four cases from the PUI Sivagangga Cluster in Kedah.

Meanwhile, he said the Ministry of Health also recorded six recoveries yesterday, bringing total number of recovered cases to 8,607.

The death toll remained at 124 as no new deaths were recorded.

The total number of active cases is at 212, of which one is receiving treatment in the intensive care unit and requires ventilator support, he added.